March 2018

Hey there – welcome to our March update. We’re excited to share what we’ve been up to… let’s just skip the intro and jump right in, deal? Deal.

Our New Website

We’ve been hard at work creating our new and improved Order Desk public website. Our goal is to make easier and more enjoyable to navigate the site and find the information you need. In the coming months we’ll be adding even more to the site including dedicated integration pages (a one-stop shop for learning all about how Order Desk works with a specific integration).

API Rate Limiting

In order to protect Order Desk and ensure that no one is abusing the system we will soon be enabling rate limiting. This means that we will limit API requests from each store to 100 requests per 30 seconds. We’ve been saving logs over the last month and if it looks like your site will be having a problem, we’ve sent you an email, so if you haven’t heard from us, don’t worry about it. If you do plan to build something that calls our API a lot, be aware of these new limits. We plan start enforcing the rate limiting around the middle of March.

If you use SmartTurn, your access URL’s will soon change since your service will be migrating to a new system. But you don’t have to worry about your connection to Order Desk. We are working with SmartTurn directly and will be taking care of this for you.

Other Fixes and Upgrades

We’ve had a really busy month with new features, fixes and integrations. Check it out:

We’ve added the return address phone field for OneFlow.

Our Circle Graphics integration now support an ‘Address 2’ field.

We fixed La Poste tracking links.

We added a |capitalize filter option for template twig.

We updated the default ship dates for OIA Global to work better for everyone.